This is why the Hanukkah festival lasts for eight days and why light is the main item in the celebration.

Traditions

Children play with a spinning top called a 'dreidel' and they also get small presents each night.

Families eat 'latkes' or potato fritters and other oily food to remember the miracle of light.

The holiday is celebrated by lighting a nine-branched candlestick called a Hanukiyah, or Chanukah Menorah.
You light the candle in the middle first, that one's called the Shamash. Then you use it to light one more candle on each night of Hanukkah.